My throat is sore
J. Wilbye
My throat is sore my voice is hoarse with skriking,
My rests are sighs, deep from the heart-root fetched.
My song runs all on sharps, and with oft striking
Time on my breats, I I shrink with hands out-stretched.
Thus still and still I sing, and ne'er am linning,
For still the close points to my first beginning.